While many big tech companies are reticent about the seemingly inevitable tide of privacy regulations headed our way, Microsoft has made a point of inviting them. On Tuesday, the software… Read More
Lawmakers in Washington state are pushing for a new privacy law that would attempt to give consumers more control over the information that big tech companies and data brokers collect about… Read More
Microsoft appears to be testing a tool that would allow internet users the manage the data websites and apps collect about them. A website for the project, codenamed Bali, was… Read More
Thirteen years ago, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center spun out a small startup with a mission to help researchers get a handle on all the data that medical devices were… Read More
—Cosmetic treatment review site RealSelf is lawyering up with Josh King as the company’s first general counsel. King is leaving legal service marketplace Avvo after more than a decade of leading… Read More
Editor’s note: Alex Alben is the Chief Privacy Officer for the State of Washington. He discussed privacy, data, and smart cities on this panel at the 2018 GeekWire Summit. COMMENTARY:… Read More
Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, introduced a privacy bill Thursday that would level hefty penalties against technology companies that misuse consumer data. The Consumer Data Protection Act would… Read More
Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA) is adding her voice to a growing chorus of U.S. lawmakers calling for stronger consumer protections online. Just before the last Congressional session ended, she introduced a… Read More
Hackers were able to access nearly 50 million Facebook accounts by exploiting a security vulnerability, the company said Friday. In response, Facebook logged about 90 million users out of their… Read More
Editor’s note: Alex Alben is the Chief Privacy Officer for the State of Washington. He will be speaking at the GeekWire Summit, Oct. 2-3. COMMENTARY: Privacy is in the news… Read More
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s nonprofit group USAFacts today debuted a new Voter Center, an online resource that shows the positions members of Congress take publicly and compares them with government… Read More
Amazon and other tech titans have accepted the reality that a federal data privacy law is on the horizon. To help shape what the regulations look like, Amazon, Apple, AT&T,… Read More
He’s been a professor and a chief scientist, a founder, a technical fellow and a chief technology officer. Through it all, Raghu Ramakrishnan has been focused on the data. Ramakrishnan… Read More
Smartphones have been around for a while, but IT departments are still trying to grapple with a challenge they’ve created: In addition to their laptops, every single employee is writing… Read More
Amazon Web Services said Thursday that it will offer QuickSight, its data analytics and visualization software, to companies and organizations on a per-session basis, seeking to appeal to smaller businesses and… Read More
For months, companies like Seattle-based mobile payments startup Remitly, have been mapping out their entire inventory of user data, updating privacy policies, and building tools to let customers access their personal information,… Read More
A cybersecurity firm called UpGuard has tied Facebook — as well as other popular consumer sites — to another data leak. UpGuard’s Chris Vickery revealed details about the leak last week, after… Read More
Facebook fatigue may be setting in after weeks of headlines, hours of Congressional testimony, and a deluge of updates that read more like talking points than a guide to how… Read More
With all the sensitive news about Facebook and privacy hovering menacingly over the Internet this week, it seems an odd time for Starbucks to begin “forcing” consumers to register so… Read More
The number of Facebook users whose data was illegitimately shared with Republican-backed political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica was bigger than previously thought. In a new announcement Wednesday, Facebook said that… Read More
Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice have asked the Supreme Court to drop a case that has pitted the two against one another since 2013. The software giant and… Read More
In oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, Microsoft argued that the federal government is not authorized to demand emails, tied to a criminal investigation, that are stored in… Read More
A showdown between Microsoft and the U.S. government will take place at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, and it could have widespread consequences for the cloud computing industry and… Read More
The nation’s capital looks like a favorite to land Amazon’s second North American headquarters. Amazon showed 218 cities, counties, states and provinces the door, cutting the list of eligible suitors… Read More
It might be chilly in Seattle this week, but a new interactive “heat map” from the folks at Payscale shows just how hot the region was in 2017 when it came… Read More
Franklin Williams believes he has “the best job in the world.” That’s because he spends his days leading Socrata‘s product managers, designers, and engineers — a team that builds tools… Read More
Journalist Stephen Dubner and economist Steven Levitt are the duo behind the popular “Freakonomics” books and podcast, crunching numbers and telling stories that explore the “hidden side of everything,” as… Read More
Microsoft released a new premium version of its Power BI data visualization software, with a flexible distribution and pricing model designed to boost adoption of the business intelligence technology among… Read More
Omri Kohl started his first business — making and delivering sandwiches — while he was in college. Within a year, the business funded his education. For more than 20 years, Kohl,… Read More
The past few years have been big for the Internet of Things (IoT), and the future of the connected device industry looks even brighter. Research firm IHS forecasts that the… Read More